Second Life as Web 2.0?

3D Virtual Environments as “Web 2.0” Applications By Jeremy Kemp, M.Ed., M.S.J. Presented November 26th, 2007 (For Lecturer Appointment)

The virtual university SAN JOSE STATE JOINS INTERNET-BASED WORLD OF SECOND LIFE By Kara Andrade San Jose Mercury News 11/23/2007 http://tinyurl.com/325xns (Tower Model by SJSU student Anathea Lopez}

My passion: Researching best practices for using 3D and web-connected social environments to teach at a distance and support information-seeking.

Jeremy Kemp, M.Ed, M.S.J. Assistant Director, Second Life Campus School of Library & Information Science San José State University jkemp@slis.sjsu.edu - http://slisweb.sjsu.edu

Who am I? Product Manager 1996 Entered MUVEs (Bungie) 1998- Online teaching (PCC) 1999- Dosimetry Online (Stanford) 2001 WebCT Admin (SJSU) 2001- Heart Murmur Sim 2006 Simteach.com Wiki 2006- Second Life Campus (SLIS) 2007-

Dosimetry

Simteach.com wiki

Overview 1. Web 2.0 and Virtual Worlds 2. Mashups and interoperability 3. Research opportunities

Part 1: This really is ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Web_2.0_Map.svg

Network effect “the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of users of the system.” - Robert Metcalfe

Virtual Worlds

Virtual Worlds • Customizable Avatars • 3D rendering • An economy with ownership and scarcity • Some degree of persistence (things stay around)

Intel Megatrends, Sept 07 • Social networking growing mature • User-created content ubiquitous • High Def TV and displays • Virtual economy connection to RL money • Has become socially acceptable and mainstream http://simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=RattnerIDF

Gartner Hype Cycle

Disillusionment with SL

Two 3D game examples • The Sims – Play by yourself – All objects are preloaded – Build structures from templates • World of Warcraft – Millions of users working in teams – All objects are preloaded – Gather prizes for your character – Everything resets when you log

The Sims (Not Web 2.0)

Company sells objects

Earning objects

Putting down templates

Cumulativity

World of Warcraft (Not Web 2.0)

Collaboration

Web 2.0 • Coined by Tim O’Reilly (2004) – Internet as platform 1. PC (Windows, Office) 2. Browser (Netscape, Yahoo index) 3. Web Database apps - device independent (Google Docs, Wikipedia, Facebook) – User-created content – Network effects – The Long Tail (Chris Anderson, 2004)

Part 2: The NEW Web 2.0 • Mashups where data flows freely • Extensible application interfaces • Virtual worlds become 3D skins

New Stanford Class

Extensible community

Second Life is more like Facebook than World of Warcraft.

Customized applications in Second Life

Database Query

Blogging tools

Web Calendar Controller

Animate your Avatar

Part 3: Research Opportunities • Instrumented places and objects • Data visualizations (3D desktop) • Heuristics of Instructional Design • Learning Management System plugins (Moodle, Angel)

Instrumenting Objects • Teen spaces prototypes

Automatic Survey Gathering

Visitor Tracking

Data visualizations (3D desktop)

One avatar for all “…market pressures will lead to a merging of current virtual worlds into a smaller number of open-sourced environments… with the use of a single, universal client.” -Gartner, Inc.

Apple Leopard

Linux CompViz

Windows Vista

Heuristics of Instructional Design • Concreteness Fading • Affective computing

Concreteness Fading Concrete Abstract Representation Representation “FADE” The Transfer of Scientific Principles Using Concrete and Idealized Simulations. Robert L. Goldstone, Ji Y. Son. Journal of the Learning Sciences 2005 14:1, 69-110.

Information wrapped in emotion • “botched lobotomy… a time-sucking black hole” • “revolutionary breakthrough… disruptive innovation” • It riled you up, makes your blood boil or your endorphins flow.

LMS plugins (Moodle, Angel)

Sloodle Diagram

Eduserv Grant • 80,000 GBP for Sloodle

Sloodle Web Survey

Service in the Field • National Education Co-Chair • Simteach Wiki • Sloan-C Co-Chair (May 08) • ALA Arts Island (Jan 08) • “ARVEL” AERA SIG

Jeremy Kemp, M.Ed, M.S.J. Assistant Director, Second Life Campus School of Library & Information Science San José State University jkemp@slis.sjsu.edu - http://slisweb.sjsu.edu

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